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Residents of Darwell and area may acquire a library card provided that proper identification is shown.

Your library card is The Alberta Library (TAL) card. This means that as a member of Darwell Public Library, you may borrow and return books at most Alberta Libraries.

Library Cards

Fees (Residents)
Family: $20.00
Individual: $10.00
Student: $5.00
Senior: $5.00

Fees (Non-Residents)

Effective June 1, 2017, for residents of non-funding municipalities, the cost of a library card will be $40.00.

If you lose your library card please contact the library immediately to avoid the unauthorized use of your library card.
If you move or change your phone number please notify us as soon as possible in order to keep your file up to date.

Loan Periods

Books: 3 weeks
DVDs: 1 week/Series 21 days

Overdue Fees

Books/DVDs: $0.10/day
Wi-Fi Hubs: $10.00/day

Darwell Public Library is only able to accept cash payments for library cards and overdue fees.

Contact us to find out more about how to obtain a library card in order to access fantastic resources.

Alberta wide borrowing is here! ME Libraries lets you join other public libraries across Alberta and borrow their materials using ONE library card. Make the most of your library card and access more items for free!

Chaddie Langman, Library Manager

Tamara Salmon, Library Assistant

Cydney Henderson, Library Assistant

Yellowhead Regional Library provides services to 303,695 Albertans in 54 municipalities and 10,822 students in three school divisions. Our priority is to provide quality library services to our 43 municipal and 43 school libraries. We continuously strive to be responsive to the needs of our members. 

Our headquarters is located in Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada.

Creating shared value

Yellowhead Regional Library’s (YRL) commitment to its member libraries is an active, ongoing approach that seeks to enrich the collections, resources and services offered to Albertans in the Yellowhead Region.

Simply put, YRL is always growing, learning and sourcing new resources to help make each member library the best it can be.

Find out more

The Regional Automation Consortium

TRAC (The Regional Automation Consortium) is a partnership of Marigold Library System, Northern Lights Library System, Peace Library System, Yellowhead Regional Library, and their member libraries. Using TRACpac you can search a combined catalogue of over 170 libraries with holdings of nearly three million books, DVDs and other material.

TRAC also participates in Alberta-wide borrowing through ME Libraries. Patrons registered through ME Libraries may borrow materials from any TRAC library, subject to local policies and lending periods.

The libraries within TRAC wish to acknowledge Treaty 6, Treaty 7, and Treaty 8 territory, as well as the Métis Nation of Alberta. The TRAC libraries are located on territory that provided a travelling route and home to many Indigenous peoples.

In the 1990s libraries across Alberta faced a number of challenges and opportunities, including the information explosion, the development of new technologies, the emergence of the Internet and a changing government philosophy.

A grassroots response to these challenges led to the creation of The Alberta Library (TAL) in 1997. Internationally recognized for cooperation and collaboration, TAL is a province-wide consortium that now serves 48 member libraries in over 300 locations across the province, including:

• public libraries
• regional library systems
• university libraries
• college, and technical institute libraries
• special libraries

Member libraries work together to take advantage of changing technologies, find creative solutions and seize new opportunities. As a result, Albertans at even the smallest library have access to more than 30 million resources.

The Darwell Public Library operates a public lending library in the community of Darwell.  It's goals are to encourage and foster a love of reading and to promote basic literacy skills among adults, youth, and children.  Darwell Public Library provides members with free access to technology and consistent high speed internet, arranges educational lectures and courses on topics of interest to the community to facilitate continuing education, promotes the concept of life long learning, serves as a center for reliable information, and supports educational, civic, and cultural activities within the community.  Because of our participation in the Yellowhead Regional Library System, our library is a single point of access to millions of movies, books, CDs, DVDs, events and more.

We can help you find exactly what you are looking for!